Are They Rich Because They’re
Smart? explains the sharpening class inequalities in the United
States and the resulting conflicts accelerated by today’s
slow-burning world depression. It takes apart the self-serving rationalizations of a growing layer of well-paid professionals that their schooling and “brightness” equip them to “regulate” the lives of working people, who can’t be trusted to know what’s in our own interests.

In the coming battles forced upon us by the capitalist rulers, says
Jack Barnes, workers will begin to transform ourselves and our
attitudes toward life, work, and each other. Only then will we
discover our own worth and learn what we’re capable of
becoming.

Laying bare the record of the Clintons’ White House and 2016 presidential campaign, Jack Barnes explains why more and more working people and unionists reject being targets of the US rulers’ economic and cultural crisis and brutal wars and are looking for ways to understand—and to resist—the profit-driven course of the capitalists, their government, and their political parties

Five Cuban revolutionaries, framed up by the U.S. government in
1998, spent up to 16 years as part of the U.S. working class behind
bars. Each reached out to fellow prisoners with respect,
solidarity, and through their own example—and won respect and
support in return.

What prepared the Cuban Five to act as each did? Above all, it was
Cuba’s socialist revolution, whose class character and values their
conduct exemplifies. With understanding, objectivity and humor, in
this 2015 interview they talk about U.S. capitalist society and its
“justice” system. And about the future of the Cuban Revolution.

Includes 40 photos from their years in prison and since the Cuban
Five won their freedom and returned to Cuba.

“Don’t start with Blacks as an oppressed nationality. Start with
the vanguard place and weight of workers who are Black in broad
proletarian-led social and political struggles in the United
States. From the Civil War to today, the record is mind-boggling.
It’s the strength and resilience, not the oppression, that bowls
you over.”
—Jack Barnes

Includes four photo sections and over 130 photographs and drawings,
author’s introduction, index, glossary.

“… A powerful and persuasive political testimony, enhanced with
black-and-white photographs, a glossary, and an
index.”
—Midwest Book Review

Building the kind of party working
people need to prepare for coming class battles through which they
will revolutionize themselves, their unions, and all society. A
handbook for those seeking the road toward effective action to
overturn the exploitative system of capitalism and join in
reconstructing the world on new, socialist foundations.

Under Sankara’s leadership, the revolutionary government of Burkina
Faso in West Africa set an electrifying example. Peasants, workers,
women, and youth mobilized to carry out literacy and immunization
drives; to sink wells, plant trees, build dams, erect housing; to
combat the oppression of women and transform exploitative relations
on the land; to free themselves from the imperialist yoke and
solidarize with others engaged in that fight
internationally.

As working people in Cuba fought to bring down a bloody tyranny in
the 1950s, the unprecedented integration of women in the ranks and
leadership of the struggle was not an aberration. It was
inseparably intertwined with the proletarian course of the
leadership of the Cuban Revolution from the start.

Women in Cuba: The Making of a Revolution Within the
Revolution is the story of that revolution and how it
transformed the women and men who made it. The book was introduced
at the 2012 Havana International Book Fair by a panel of speakers
from Cuba and the US. Women and Revolution: The Living Example
of the Cuban Revolution contains the presentations from that
event.

The 15-year political campaign of the Socialist Workers Party to
expose decades of spying and disruption by the FBI and other
federal cop agencies targeting working class organizations and
other opponents of government policies. Traces the origins of
bipartisan efforts to expand presidential powers and build the
“national security” state essential to maintaining capitalist rule.
Includes “Imperialist War and the Working Class” by Farrell
Dobbs.

The revolutionary program of the working class, as presented during
the 1941 trial of leaders of the Minneapolis labor movement and the
Socialist Workers Party for “seditious conspiracy.” Includes
Cannon’s answer to ultraleft critics of the defendants, drawing
lessons from the working-class movement from Marx and Engels to the
October Revolution and beyond.

In this firsthand account by a historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, we meet men and women who led the urban underground in the fight against the brutal U.S.-backed tyranny in the 1950s. Together with their comrades-in-arms in the Rebel Army, they not only overthrew the dictatorship. Their revolutionary actions and example worldwide changed the history of the 20th century—and the century to come.

Zona Roja: La experiencia cubana del ébola (Red Zone: The Cuban Experience with Ebola) paints a picture of the social disaster that unfolded in West Africa in 2014-15, the callously inadequate response by Washington and other major capitalist powers, and Cuba’s decisive actions in pushing back the epidemic. Bringing to life the Cuban Revolution’s internationalist example, one of the doctors interviewed by the author says: “We simply carried out a duty that is in line with the moral values of the revolution.”

“A tribune of the people reacts to every manifestation of tyranny and oppression, no matter where it appears.”

The authors of this book draw on generations of revolutionary struggles by working people to explain why organizing to strengthen the unions is not only essential to the fighting unity and political striking power of the working class. It’s central to building a revolutionary proletarian party as well.

But the activity of a workers party neither begins nor ends there. It begins by extending the party’s political reach in all directions, to cities, towns, and farms. By exchanging views and experiences with all layers of workers, farmers, and other toilers— irrespective of skin color, language, religion or sex. By broadening cultural horizons and knowledge of history and the world.

A tribune of the people uses every manifestation of capitalist oppression to explain why it’s workers and our allies who can and will—in the course of struggles by the unions and beyond— lay the foundations for a world based not on violence and competition, but on solidarity among working people worldwide.

Can workers in the US make a socialist revolution? A leader of the Socialist Workers Party says “yes” at a 2018 conference in Cuba of historians and trade unionists.

Now with more than 130 photos and illustrations!

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How the class-struggle Teamsters leadership in the Upper Midwest organized to fight union busting, racism, and colonial oppression, as they opposed the mobilization of labor behind U.S. imperialist war aims in World War II. How Washington—backed by top AFL, CIO, and Teamsters officials—acted to gag class-conscious workers.

The last of four books on the 1930s strikes, organizing drives, and political campaigns that transformed the Teamsters union in Minnesota and much of the Midwest into a fighting industrial union movement. Written by a leader of the communist movement in the U.S. and organizer of the Teamsters union during the rise of the CIO. Indispensable tools for advancing revolutionary politics, organization, and effective trade unionism.

Farrell Dobbs, a central leader of the labor battles and debates
recorded here, tells how in the 1930s the leadership of Teamsters
Local 544 in Minneapolis fought to lead workers across the Midwest
onto an independent working-class political course.

How they organized the unemployed and truck
owner-operators into fighting union auxiliaries.

Deployed a Union Defense Guard to stop the
fascist Silver Shirts.

Campaigned for workers to break politically
from the bosses and organize a labor party based on the
unions.

And mobilized labor opposition to U.S.
imperialism’s entry into World War II.

“When we face new and unexpected challenges we will always be able to recall the epic of Angola with gratitude, because without Angola we would not be as strong as we are today.”
—Raúl Castro May 1991

Beginning in 1975 an epic battle was waged for the future of
southern Africa. The Angolan people had just thrown off 500
years of Portuguese colonial brutality. Now South Africa’s
white supremacist regime, spurred by Washington, had invaded
Angola. Its goal: to impose a government beholden to
Pretoria and imperialism.

Angola’s government appealed for help. The response of
Cuba’s leadership was immediate and decisive. A hard-fought
war for freedom ended in 1988 at the battle of Cuito Cuanavale,
with the crushing defeat of South Africa’s army by
Angolan, Cuban, and Namibian combatants.

This is the story of Cuba’s unparalleled contribution to the
fight to free Africa from the scourge of apartheid. And how, in
the doing, Cuba’s socialist revolution also was strengthened.

The Cuban Revolution of 1959 had a worldwide political impact, including on workers and youth in the imperialist heartland. As the proletarian-based struggle for Black rights was advancing in the U.S., the social transformation fought for and won by Cuban toilers set an example that socialist revolution is not only necessary—it can be made and defended.

The social devastation and financial panic, coarsening of politics,
cop brutality, and imperialist aggression—all are products not of
something gone wrong with capitalism but of its lawful workings.
Yet the future can be changed by the united struggle of workers and
farmers increasingly conscious of their capacity to wage
revolutionary struggles for state power and to transform the
world.

Fidel Castro’s day-by-day account of the final months of the
revolutionary war in Cuba to bring down the US-backed Batista
dictatorship. Tells how worker and peasant combatants defeated the
“final offensive” by an army more than 30 times their size,
launched a 147-day counteroffensive to extend the revolutionary
struggle to the rest of the country, and took power January 1,
1959. Includes communiqués, letters, maps, and photos. Two
volumes.

Analyzing examples in the 20th century—Father Charles Coughlin, Jersey City mayor Frank Hague, and Sen. Joseph McCarthy—this collection looks at the features distinguishing fascist movements and demagogues in the United States from the 1930s to the 1970s.

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